With a blink of an eye, the midway point of the 2025 NFL regular season is upon us. And if the first half is any indication of what is in store for the second half of the regular season, NFL fans will surely be in for a treat.
The first eight weeks of the regular season featured some spectacular individual performances that could lead to hardware for themselves and possibly their teams at season’s end. Specifically, the Patriots and Colts have multiple individuals who are in position to win some of the biggest awards the NFL has to offer. It’s no coincidence that both teams are also off to surprisingly good starts.
Before the start of Week 9, members of the CBS Sports team cast their votes for the NFL’s most distinguished individual awards through the season’s first eight weeks. Some votes were landslides, others were extremely close and one ended in a dead heat.
The voters (14): CBS Sports editorial senior director Adam Silverstein; CBS Sports assistant managing NFL editor Kevin Steimle; CBS Sports NFL editor Kyle Stackpole; CBS Sports NFL writers Cody Benjamin, John Breech, Jared Dubin, Garrett Podell, Tyler Sullivan; CBS Sports writers Jordan Dajani, Bryan DeArdo, Zach Pereles; CBS Sports HQ NFL analysts JP Acosta, Leger Douzable and Emory Hunt.
MVP
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1. Colts RB Jonathan Taylor (7 votes)
2. Patriots QB Drake Maye (4 votes)
3. Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes (3 votes)
Has the NFL MVP become a quarterback award? Based on our votes, that may not be the case this year as Taylor appears to have a serious case to be the first non-QB to win the award since Adrian Peterson did so 13 years ago.
Not surprisingly, Taylor’s two closest competitors for the award are indeed quarterbacks. However, the QBs themselves are a bit surprising, especially Maye,…
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